TROJAN ARC HARMONIC
MEETINGS 2nd THURS MAR/JUN/SEP/DEC 7:00PM CT
PIONEER MEMORIAL LIBRARY
WØWOB REPEATER
146.22/.82
K0FJ BBS 145.01
OCTOBER 2000
SIMULATED EMERGENCY TEST RESULTS
Our Emergency Coordinator K0FJ was pleased with the participation in the SET October 7. Eight ARES members sent 13 messages and a summary went to Section EC Joe WD0DMV in Topeka via HF. ALL messages were sent on emergency power, which included having to jump-start the Command Post! Just the reason it’s good to shake down equipment, as well as polish traffic handling skills. Mike will be signing up ARES members with new info cards/Ids at the December meeting. Thanks to participants!REPEATER NET ACTIVE AGAIN
Somewhat in the spirit of the above, but also just for general interest, we’re trying the VHF net on the club repeater Thursday nights again. 8PM CT on 146.82 W0WOB repeater. Any and all checkins are welcomed. If nobody has called the net by a couple minutes after 8PM, anybody should feel free to callup and accept checkins/comments.VE TESTING OCTOBER 21
We’re planning on a Volunteer Exam session Saturday October 21 9:30AM CT. This will be at K0FJ’s office at the top of City Hall. Enter through the SE Fire Dept entrance. This may be our final W5YI session before switching to ARRL VE exams. Thanks to recent upgrades among our BVEs, we can now test Tech through Extra at these ‘routine’ exam sessions. Walkins are welcome, but we appreciate knowing your plans. Email k0fj@arrl.net or k0bj@arrl.net if thinking about testing.CREAMCAN
After spending the previous few days worrying about wx too hot for a ‘great’ creamcan dinner, we had to decide whether to cancel due to DISMAL cool, damp wx. We forged ahead and held the event at Helen Frahm’s (mother of K0BJ), which offered a sunroom to duck into when the chill got too heavy. We had a good crowd including Brad KC0HQZ from Goodland and his XYL, and a CCC student from Panama who is a friend of Patti N0OXP.KC0HQZ HAUL
Sometimes it pays to be in the right place at the right time. Brad KC0HQZ was available to help when Doc Taylor W0FEE’s widow was ready to dispose of his gear. Brad got a great price on Doc’s ATLAS 210, SB-220, 2 tribanders and a lot of related miscellaneous ham gear. Brad needs some help removing one of the tribanders from Doc’s famous ‘utility pole’ skyhook, and may have enlisted KC0HBR to help with the deed. Congratulations Brad.PACKET RACKET de Mike K0FJ –
We successfully repaired the High School Weather Node Rain Gauge at the last meeting. Turned out to be a wire pulled out of a socket….. The node and BBS are running with no problems. Allen is the only one to use the BBS recently. I would like to maintain the BBS for emergency use, but if only 2-3 of us are going to maintain packet equipment, I am beginning to wonder if it is worth time it takes to keep it going. Let me know if you have plans to use packet in the near future.PROPOSED NEW CONSTITUTION AND BYLAWS
Our much-delayed rewrite of Constitution and Bylaws is done and ready for modification and/or passage by the club. Please look over the draft documents at the end of this and be ready to vote. Our ARRL affiliation is ‘on hold’ and can be brought active with passage of fresh organizational documents. Thanks to K0FJ for working on this project.BANDSCAN
Jim KC0HBR is the proud owner of a new (to him) FT840 HF rig that surfaced at the Scott City hamfest/picnic. Interestingly, that’s the very rig Jim had been eyeballing ads on and considering ordering from HRO. Going the used route saved almost 3 C notes, PLUS he got the mobile bracket and FM board to boot! BT Mike K0FJ walked away with a posh doorprize from Scott City – a 5/8 wave 2M mag mount antenna. Thanks to K0EQH and company for putting on a nice get-together in Scott City. BT New K-N Communications employee Jeff Schultz and City of Colby worker Matt Norman have bought Now You’re Talking and are working on getting licensed. Jeff has even been working on cw. BT K0FJ studies well at the "DX Temple" of W0TM in Wolcott CO. Mike and Bruce were impressed with Gary’s computerized station, which monitors multiple packet and webclusters for needed band/countries on HF. When one is detected, an alarm and voice announcement follow. The op. then hits an F key, the rig QSYs to the proper mode/freq, and you’re set to call, work and log the DX station! If this all sounds complex, Mike and Gary say it is – to set up initially. Thereafter, it’s pretty easy and a mighty grand use of technology. This system will be featured as our October program. Be ready to drool…. BT Trojans and friends did well in the ARRL SSB DX contest last March. Results were just published. Scott KB0WPY won single op low power KS with 296 Qs, 138 mults, score 122544. He was the only SOLP entry in KS, but this is a nice effort. K0BJ and KC0HBR did a multiop single xmtr effort, minimal time for multiop. 548 Qs, 196 mults, score 322224. 6/6 in 0 land. Our Colorado friends also operated in this event. Phil N0KE, of Vail took 2nd place W/VE in QRP! Phil used WB0GAZ QTH and ran up 852 flea power Qs in 251 mults for a FB score of 651556, which took first place in CO and midwest region as well. Gary W0TM chose SOHP single band 20M, and ran up 240 Qs andNEXT
MEETING OCTOBER 12 7PM K0FJ/N0OXP QTH 140 E. Cherry Discussion of officer nominations, possible club jacket order, location for Christmas party. For the program K0FJ will demo his DX Telnet and DX4Windows "automated HF station". K0BJ will show projected JPEG images of his buddy KM9D/mm’s exploits sailing the Panama Canal and some choice DX spots in the Pacific.The Trojan Amateur Radio Club is a general interest educational and public service ham club. We maintain a 2M FM repeater and a station at the NWS in Goodland. Dues are $10/annually, payable to Mike Albers K0FJ, 140 E. Cherry, Colby KS 67701. Material from the Trojan Harmonic may be freely copied; attribution is appreciated. News and free email subscription requests to KØBJ, PO Box DX, Colby KS 67701 or
bfrahm@colby.ixks.comCONSTITUTION
PREAMBLE: We, the undersigned, wishing to secure for ourselves the pleasures and benefits of the association of persons commonly interested in Amateur Radio, constitute ourselves the Trojan Amateur Radio Club and enact this constitution as our governing law. It shall be our purpose to further exchange of information and cooperation between members, to promote radio knowledge, fraternalism and individual operating efficiency, and to so conduct Club programs and activities as to advance the general interest and welfare of amateur radio in the community.
MEMBERSHIP:
Article I All persons interested in amateur radio communication* shall be eligible for membership. (Membership shall be by application and election upon such terms as the Club shall by its By-Laws provide.)
OFFICERS:
Article II Section 1 – The officers of this Club shall be: President, Vice-President, Secretary/Treasurer, and Program Director.
Section 2 – The officers of this club shall be elected for a term of one year by ballot of the members present, provided there be quorum, at the meeting on the second Thursday in November.
Section 3 – Vacancies occurring between elections must be filled by special elections at the first regular meeting following the withdrawal or resignation.
Section 4 – Officers may be removed by a three-fourths vote of the membership.
* Radio communication between amateur stations solely with a personal aim
and without pecuniary interest.
DUTIES OF OFFICERS:
Article III Section 1 – The President shall preside at all meetings of the Club, and conduct the same according to the rules adopted. He shall enforce due observance of this Constitution and By-Laws; decide all questions of order; sign all official documents that are adopted by the Club, and perform all other customary duties pertaining to the office of president.
Section 2 – the Vice-President shall assume all duties of the President in the absence of the latter. He will function as the Club corresponding secretary for Club communications with other clubs or groups.
Section 3 – The Secretary/Treasurer shall keep a record of the proceedings of all meetings, keep a roll of members, submit application for membership, carry on all member correspondence, read communications of each meeting, and mail written meeting notices to each member. He shall receive and receipt all monies paid to the Club; he shall keep an accurate account of all monies received and expended. He shall pay no bills without proper authorization (by the Club or its officers constituting a business committee). At the end of each quarter he shall submit an itemized statement of disbursements and receipts. He shall at the expiration of his term turn over everything in his possession belonging to the Club to his successor.
Section 4 – The Program Director shall organize club member activities, plan and recommend contests for operating benefit, and advance club interest and activity as approved by the Club. He shall maintain close liaison with the ARRL Emergency Coordinator or SEC to further Club participation in the Amateur Radio Public Service Corps. He shall encourage new stations in reporting activities to the Club (bulletin) and to the election Section Communications Manager of the ARRL; all these things to make the reputation of the Club and amateur radio activities in the community as outstanding as possible. He may appoint traffic committees or assistants to aid him in specific branches of activity.
MEETINGS:
Article IV The By-Laws shall provide for regular and special meetings. At meetings, a minimum of one-third of the membership shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
DUES:
Article V The Club, by majority vote of those present at any regular meeting, may levy upon the general membership such dues or assessments as shall be deemed necessary for the business of the organization within its objects as set forth in the preamble. Non-payment of such dues or assessments shall be cause for expulsion from the Club within the discretion of the membership.
MEMBERSHIP ASSISTANCE:
Article VI This Club shall enact appropriate rules to minimize interference in operation between stations of its members; it shall formulate adequate plans for disposition of any cases of interference to other radio services where reported as caused by any amateur station operation in the area of club jurisdiction. The Club through designated INTERFERENCE, PUBLIC RELATIONS, AND OPERATING COMMITTEES will provide technical advice to members concerning equipment design and operation to assist in frequency observance, clean signals, uniform practice, and absence of spurious radiations from Club member-stations. The Club shall also maintain a program to foster and guide public relations.
AMENDMENTS:
Article VII This constitution or the By-Laws may be amended by a two-thirds vote of the total membership. Proposals for amendments shall be submitted in writing at a regular meeting and shall be voted on at the next following regular meeting, provided all members have been notified by mail or email of the intent to amend the constitution and/or by-laws at said meeting.
RULES:
Article VIII Robert’s Rules shall govern proceedings.
BY-LAWS
It shall be the duty of the Secretary to keep the constitution and by-laws of the Club and have the same with him at every meting. He shall cause all amendments, changes and additions to be noted thereon and shall permit the same to be consulted by members upon request.
Applications for membership shall be submitted at a regular meeting. Each applicant must express a willingness to abide by the Constitution and By-Laws and other rules promulgated by the Club. Two-thirds of those present shall approve the applicant before he shall be considered elected to membership.
Regular meetings shall be held on the second Thursday of each calendar month at such place, as the President shall order. Special meetings may be called by the President upon the written request of any five club members. Notices shall be sent to members concerning special meetings and the business to be transacted. Such notices shall be so sent so that in the ordinary postal or email delivery they arrive not less than 24-hours before the meeting time.
A regular annual assessment of $10.00 per full member and $5.00 per associate or family member is hereby assessed in accordance with the provisions of Article V of the Constitution for the purpose of providing funds for current expenses.
The QRM Committee shall consist of five members (appointed by the Club President), representative of amateurs, broadcast listeners, and the press. This committee shall direct investigations, invite proper inquiries, establish technical facts and testimony within its province, and report its results to the Club.
(Additional by-laws may provide for technical, program, publicity, and other committees or other rules provisions not provided for in the Constitution itself.)
NAMES OF CHARTER MEMBERS: